He Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art

Systematic Catalogs

Edgar Degas Sculpture

Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman

Executed in wax and dressed in a ballerina's tutu,Little Dancer Anile Fourteen acquired a sensation when information technology was exhibited in 1881. It is the but sculpture Edgar Degas e'er showed publicly, though more than 1 hundred—including dancers, horses, and bathers—were plant in his studio afterwards he died; all were dusty, and some had fallen apart. This groundbreaking volume documents the Gallery's superb collection of sculpture past Degas, linking art and science with insights from an fine art historian, conservators, and scientists.

"Perhaps the best and most consummate book on Degas's sculpture ever done." —International Sculpture Center

"The National Gallery catalogue compiles a broad new range of concrete prove and cut-edge technical analysis of Degas'due south sculptural product, providing a turning point in our appreciation of this elusive creative person." —ARTnews

408 pages | 221 color images, 209 blackness and white images | 9.75 x xi.25 inches

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French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century

Philip Conisbee et al.

Georges de La Bout's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Siméon Chardin'southward perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a business firm of cards; Jean Honoré Fragonard's monumental suite of landscapes showing aristocrats at play in picturesque gardens--these are amidst the familiar and dearest masterpieces in the National Gallery of Fine art, Washington, which houses one of the near of import collections of French onetime chief paintings outside France. This lavishly illustrated book, written by leading scholars and the result of years of inquiry and technical analysis, catalogs almost one hundred paintings, from works by François Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in the eighteenth.

French fine art before the revolution is characterized by an astonishing variety of styles and themes and by a consistently high quality of product, the upshot of an efficient training organization developed past the traditional guilds and the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 by Male monarch Louis XIV. The National Gallery of Art'south collection reflects this quality and multifariousness, featuring excellent examples by all the leading painters: platonic landscapes by Claude Lorrain and biblical subjects by Nicolas Poussin, two artists who spent nearly of their careers in Rome; securely moving religious works past La Tour, Sébastien Bourdon, and Simon Vouet; portraits of the grandest format (Philippe de Champaigne'sOmer Talon) and the most intimate (Nicolas de Largillierre'due southElizabeth Throckmorton); and familiar scenes of daily life by the Le Nain brothers in the seventeenth century and Chardin in the eighteenth. The Gallery's drove is especially notable for its holdings of eighteenth-century painting, from Jean Antoine Watteau to Hubert Robert, and including marvelous suites of paintings by François Boucher and Fragonard. All these works are explored in detailed, readable entries that will entreatment as much to the general art lover equally to the specialist.

552 pages | 118 color images | nine.625 10 11.25 inches

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Renaissance Medals
Volume 1: Italy

John Graham Pollard

The National Gallery of Fine art houses the single most of import collection of portrait medals in the United States. This two-volume itemize examines in depth these holdings, comprising more than eight hundred medals. Providing detailed technical information—including the blend composition of each medal—drawn from careful enquiry, ascertainment, and analysis, Renaissance Medals breaks new ground in the scholarly literature. Volume One focuses on the Gallery's superb collection of Italian Renaissance medals, unique in their quality, number, and diversity. Book Two documents the Gallery's collection of sixteenth century German medals, French baroque medals, and smaller, though no less significant, groups of Netherlandish and English language medals.

i,120 pages | 66 color images | nine.625 x 11.25 inches

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Renaissance Medals
Book ii: France, Germany, The Netherlands, and England

John Graham Pollard with the aid of Eleonora Luciano and Maria Pollard

The National Gallery of Fine art houses the unmarried most important collection of portrait medals in the United States. This 2-volume itemize examines in depth these holdings, comprising more viii hundred medals. Providing detailed technical information—including the alloy composition of each medal—drawn from careful research, ascertainment, and analysis, Renaissance Medals breaks new ground in the scholarly literature. Volume I focuses on the Gallery's superb collection of Italian Renaissance medals, unique in their quality, number, and diversity. Volume 2 documents the Gallery'southward drove of sixteenth century High german medals, French baroque medals, and smaller, though no less meaning, groups of Netherlandish and English medals.

1,120 pages | 66 color epitome | 9.625 x 11.25 inches

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Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

The National Gallery of Art's collection of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings is relatively small, numbering less than sixty, but infrequent in quality. At the cadre of the collection are twelve paintings by Sir Peter Paul Rubens and his schoolhouse and seventeen paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck, including some of their finest masterpieces. Likewise represented are fantabulous works by other important Flemish masters.

290 pages | 56 color images | 9.625 ten 11.25 inches

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Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century

Miklós Boskovits and David Alan Brown

Many of the Gallery'due south greatest masterpieces—such as Leonardo'sGinevra de' Benci, Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi'sThe Admiration of the Magi, and works by Bellini, Sassetta, Perugino, Filippino Lippi, Botticelli, Carpaccio, Ghirlandaio, Domenico Veneziano, and Piero di Cosimo—are featured.

778 pages | 153 color images | 9.625 x xi.25 inches

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